Improvement in paper-pulp hats



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS A. PEASE, OF'NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-PULP HATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,744, dated October 18, 1864.

To cl/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J ULIUs A. PEAsE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hat, said hat being a new article of manufacture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature ot' my invention consists of a hat made from the pulp of paper, said pulp being either water-proof or otherwise,` and subsequently embossed, docked, or otherwise ornamented exteriorly.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I make my pulp in the usual manner employed by paper-makers, or I use, instead of water, spirits or benzine with a water-proof gum or other water-proof substance, by means of which I make a water-proof pulp. I force my pulp into a suitable mold to give the desired shape and size to the hat; or it can be formed on a wire frame by placing said form into a vat of the pulp and forming the hat on it. If made of the ordinary paper-pulp, it can be waterproofed afterward and flocked to imitate Woolen; or the molds can be so constructed as to imitate straw or other braids.

I am aware that paper-boards have been used for the bodies of hats and bonnets to be covered with other materials. This I do not claim. My hat is made directly from paperpulp, and I am enabled to give to it a more perfeet symmetry than to those formed from sheets or boards of paper, and it also possesses greater and more uniform elasticity. I ain also enabled to dispense with all sutures and duplicated edges in joining the several parts, and in connecting the crown to the body. I am also enabled to adapt the thickness of the material in the several parts to the strain and use of such parts, respectively7 in Wear. Nor will a curved brim of my manufacture have a tendency to depart from such form, as is the case with hats made of paper, and I am hence enabled to dispense with the use of heavy and hardening sizing requisite in the manufacture of hats from paper. I am aware, also,

JULIUS A. PEASE.

Vitnesses J. B. NONEs, O. A. PEAsE. 

